It illustrates the wave of baby-boomers, roughly aged 40-60 in 2002, followed by a decline in the population profile (the "baby bust" generation, or generation X), and then a second relatively large generation comprised of the boomers children (the echo generation) (Foot and Stoffman 1998).

The retention initiatives underway will be implemented only after some members have decided to leave," she reported, with the ominous warning that "It could take the Canadian Forces as long as 30 years to achieve a stable population profile.

Programs like these take into account that the "full time" nonworking graduate student is becoming an anachronism; the population profile trend in higher education is the mature professional who desires higher education but not at the expense of sacrificing employment status.

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